Articles with tag: «problems of paid medical services»

Economics of health

2017 № 9
Problems of rendering paid medical services from the position of heads of medical institutions

In accordance with the legislation in the field of health care, every citizen of the Russian Federation has the right to receive medical care, which is implemented by providing a guaranteed volume of free medical care and the possibility of obtaining paid medical services. Despite the legally established procedure and conditions for the provi- sion of paid medical services, medical institutions of state and non-state forms of ownership have a large number of problems when providing paid medical services. The object of this study was an expert evaluation of the organization of paid medical services at the level of the administrative center of the subject of the Russian Federation. The experts were the manager of medical institutions that have a certificate on the specialty «Public Health and Health Care». To eliminate the random nature of the comments, a study was conducted to determine the homogeneity of the sample using the nonparametric Cochran criterion. The results confirmed the existence of problems in the organization of paid medical services and allowed to identify the most significant problem areas